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Fat Eyes Biography

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  • Years Active: 1990s-2000s
  • Genre: World & Reggae

Fat Eyes is not only the name of a highly successful Jamaican dancehall reggae label, but also the name of the production team that owns it, Colin "Bulby" Youkat and Lynford "Fatta" Marshall. Both Youkat and Marshall had experience in the engineer's chair in the early-'90s, working with artists like Sly & Robbie, Black Uhuru, Beenie Man, and Culture. Toward the end of the '90s, Beres Hammond started using them almost exclusively, and some popular riddims (Renegade, Candle Wax, and Living Colours) started to emerge from the team and their label. Their riddims were highly creative, sometimes taking an old track by the Melodians and updating it, sometimes taking a bit of Beethoven and mixing it with a D'Angelo piano line. By 2002 the two were focusing on production, and when their work on Sean Paul's track "Punkie" helped sell 1.5 million copies of Dutty Rock, they were a hot property. Heartbeat records picked up on it and formed an alliance with the team. 2003 saw Heartbeat release Fat Eyes Presents a Dancehall Twofer: Fat Eyes Deelite and Dancehall Attack, a collection of two older Fat Eyes compilations, and a set of totally new tracks, Dancehall Deelite. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi

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